import urllib2, httplib
import json
import StringIO
import gzip

class HandleGZippedJSON:
    def __init__(self, url):
        self.url = url
        self.json_data = None

    def run(self):
        #httplib.HTTPConnection.debuglevel = 1
        request = urllib2.Request(self.url)
        request.add_header('Accept-encoding', 'gzip')
        opener = urllib2.build_opener()
        f = opener.open(request)
        c_data = f.read()
        c_stream = StringIO.StringIO(c_data)
        gzipper = gzip.GzipFile(fileobj=c_stream)
        data = gzipper.read()
        self.json_data = json.loads(data)
        #return json.loads(data)

def main():
    out = HandleGZippedJSON("http://stackauth.com/sites")
    out.run()
    #print out.json_data
    print json.dumps(out.json_data, indent=4)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()